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Re: burlap bags



Do your burlap bags bio-degrade?  Why not just compost your unused bags?

Or, use them in the "lasagna" method of composting.  In the late fall, cover
your "cover" crop, (or sod, or any place grown over with light vegetation)
with the bags where you intend to cultivate and plant in the coming season.
Leave them there to block out the sun from the plants underneath so they die
and add to the humus in the following spring, when you can easily till under
the remaining material, (as long as the bags decompose over the winter).  This
saves you from having to double till in the spring because you won't have any
living plant material left by then when you till only once before planting.

Let me know what you end up with.  And if you still have too many of those
things, maybe I could take them off your hands!

Martin Nyberg
The GreenMan Farm
Vashon, WA